Post your thoughts and ideas about how you will use the GAME plan process with your students to help them develop proficiency in the technology standards and indicators outlined in the NETS-S.
I am planning on starting my game plan the second week of school (once students have all accounts set up, understand technology basics, etc.). I want to incorporate more Problem Based Learning approach because I believe students will gain more meaning out of there learning. I want to write a grant to get laptops for my grade level team. We have 3 computer labs but I want to get laptops into the classroom to be convenient. I think it will be more meaningful and offer more time for students to work through technology. I am also going to put a pacing guide out for my grade level and offer it to other grades so they are able to see what the 4th grade students are doing as far as technology. The GAME plan has offered me numerous options of setting goals and finding ways to achieve them so I want to apply this to all of the lessons and units that I teach.
Megan,
ReplyDeleteI think that is great that you are going to start off the school year incorportating more technology in your classroom. I am sure the high school has laptops that are available for the whole school to use, do you think it is easy to get them over to the elementary? I do think it would be great to be able to have laptops for each student, I wonder how difficult it would be to get a grant for them. Students would be able to accomplish a lot more instead of waiting to use the computer lab for fifty minutes once a day. I also like that students would be able to research and follow along on a lesson that we are teaching instead of doing it on one computer and then projecting it onto a screen.
~Michelle
Megan,
ReplyDeleteIt would revolutionize your classroom, not to mention the whole school, eventually, to have a classroom set of laptops for student use throughout the day. That is what, I believe, our classrooms will look like in the very near future, anyway. I would think there would be grants available for putting laptops in the hands of every student in the class. And if you write a successful grant to get a classroom set of laptops, who knows, maybe your principal will hire you to write more grants to get the whole school set up with them!